Maybe it didn't but I would love to change the new Wrath into the green old one, and as you guys already said, the sunfire to Insect Swarm visually, which would make sense as an aoe that spreads to other targets.
Combined with the old green Wrath and IS I would also love to change the moonkin form into a green, leafy form that is the opposite of the current astral form. One of the reasons why I don't play a balance in its current iteration is that it feels to me like an arcane and holy mage combined together.
It's not, it's part of the new 'Affinity' row of talents (I suspect these will replace the level 90 talent row, but no concrete info there yet). I was at the Systems Q&A that took place at the Darkmoon Faire (wasn't on the virtual ticket) along with Arielle, Lisanna and Tinderhoof, and Arielle specifically asked if Affinity meant that Bearcat could make a comeback, to which the devs said yes. They also said that you could be a Bearkin if you wanted, or Moontree, or any other combination of 2 specs, as the Affinity row will actually grant you additional abilities that are specific to the spec you choose to align with.
Regarding Balance specifically, Lisanna asked what's up with Moonkin, and they said they were changing/removing Eclipse as it's never really worked as they wanted it to since it was introduced in WotLK; the playstyle will still be DoT-based however.
I can't possibly imagine a world where innervate would ever possibly be even close to the league that roar is in when comes to raid utility. Innervate would have to be a raid wide mana tide like ability to even have the discussion.
Also find it somewhat amusing that they mentioned "felt like playing with your UI," when it's 10x worse with healers and playing whack-a-mole with Grid (or whatever they use these days).
Does anyone know if any other specs have gone through the serious mechanic changes that Balance has since Launch? It is pretty crazy not to have found anything satisfying after the game being out for over a decade.
29h left...
*restlessly paces around*
I could live with have an affinity with feral with my moonkin. It's handy for low health mobs and some quick aoe with the swipe. As well as mobility.
^this^ FML. I've been Boomy since Vanilla but for WoD due to the mass changes I went Resto and never looked back. Now Blizz is saying I have to learn how to play ALL OVER AGAIN?!? Dammit, leave sht alone! Wonder how bad they screw up Resto now--why do I even play this game. I hear some guy named Ghost Crawler does something for some game called League of Legends, maybe I should investigate further...
"He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him!"--Khan Noonien Singh
Drama much?
Oh god, you have to put in like...2 hours to get used to a new style and polish it passively in the next weeks, the horror! I always liked the Moonkin redesigns, it helped not getting bored by the boring by design playstyles so to say.
Looks like I will be selling my Innervate to the healers again in Legion!